Table of Contents to New Book

Contents
Introduction 6
History and Traditions 9
Words and Meanings 10
Sky-Blue Yurt-Home: The Love 12
An Ultra Simple Yurt-Home 14
Plans: An Overview 17
Tension Band 19
Site Preparation 23
A Flat Spot is a Floor 26
Door Frame 29
Walls 33
Rafters 49
Roof Ring 51
Some Assembly Required 56
Scaffolding 59
Roof Ring Supports 61
Covering 63
Insulating 65
Custom Doors 67
Snow, Wind and Rain 69
Dome Covering 72
Heating and Cooling 73
Spirit Hollow Yurt-Home 75
Math 78
Understanding 16 Foot Plans 82
Understanding 12 Foot Plans 84
`` A Story Ends/ A Story Begins 86
Photographs 88
Bibliography 102
Resources For a Yurt Life Style 103
Index 104
Links 105

Cover for New Book on Yurts: Final Proof

Today I drove to Manchester Center Vermont to meet with Debbi Wraga at Shires Press. Things are moving forward and I hope to have copies to sell on Oct 22. An ebook will be offered at Scribd at about the same time. After I went to Arlington Vermont's waterfall and spent a sacred moment.

Mongolian-Yurts.com

Mongolian-Yurts.com, with locations in Columbus, Ohio, USA and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is the source for beautifully made Mongolian Yurts/Gers and is a fantastic site to visit for yurt lovers everywhere. Don't miss visiting this site!

Proof Book Cover

Above is a proof of book cover. Final will have background picture in geater detail and will loose the word "the" in the title.

Ultra Simple Yurt-Homes

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The process of writing a book on building an ultra simple yurt-home has been interesting. It forced me to deeply reflect about what I had done. I think that it was just pure luck that I tripped over the design that was the simplest and most direct one. The ultra simple yurt has straight rafters and straight wall rods and hour glass shaped walls. The design is one that originated in Mongolia and my sense is that it was the original Mongolian design. What's especially great about the design is that it requires only the simplest of wood working skills to make.
The original yurts were Turkic and had steam bent rafters and steam bent wall rods. Steam bending does not strike me as a very simple wood working technique. Nor is the alternative water soaking method strike me as very easy to do. Turkic yurts are domed in roof and flat in wall as a result.
The Mongolian yurt derived from the Turkic design and simplified it. Mongolian people had a long way to go, far from the treeless steppes where they lived, to get Larch wood for their dwellings. In simplifying the Turkic design, the Mongolian design creates the simplest, most direct shelter of magical and complex beauty on Earth. What is truly amazing that such shelters can be created with such simple skills at such low costs.

For Love of Yurts: The Book nears completion!

For Love of Yurts is nearing completion, as an ebook and as a paperback published by Shire's Press, Manchester Center, Vermont and will soon be offered on a website under development by Floating World in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sailing and Yurts

Sail boats and yurts depend on fabric arts to function. Sails are designed to catch the wind. Yurt coverings are designed to shed the wind. The three bands of rope that hold the wall covering to the frame and the crossed ropes on the roof that are lashed to the wall ropes are there to prevent your covering from becoming a sail.